Stations are
allowed to operate 24 out of the 30 hours of the Qso Party. For 2015,
CQP ran from 9:00 am PDT (16:00 UTC) on Saturday October 3 to 3:00 pm
(22:00 UTC) on Sunday October 4.

California
stations count each of the 50 states and 8 Canadian provinces as
multiplers. Non-CA stations count each of the 58 California counties
as multipliers.

There was to
be a 1 hour practice event on Friday evening starting with C.W. at
7pm and SSB at 7:30pm; each for 30 mins.WQ6X worked
ONE station on CW and heard NO ONE on SSB.

N6GEO

Because this
year marks CQP 50, a special GOLDRUSH
bonus in the form of medallion coins are being awared to stations
with 150+ QSOs in the log who also work stations spelling out GOLDRUSH.

A special page
as been created to track the 24 BONUS stations.Click
here to check out WQ6X GoldRush page.Click
here to view details of who the GOLDRUSH stations were and the
medallion Winners are. K6YL said a page update is due in November.

W6E worked 22
out of the 24 GOLDRUSH stations;missing only
K6D & K6S.

I wrote a Blog
entry about our W6E contest event.Click
Here to view this Blog entry.

In CQP, radio
amateurs from around the world endeavor to contact amateurs in Californiaon the
standard shortwave radio bands of 160, 80/75, 40, 20, 15 & 10 meters.

The 2014 CQP
results were released in February 2015.Our K6U
operation not only took FIRST PLACE for LP in Contra
Costa county - we set a new county record!We made
contacts on all bands from 80-meters (3.5 mhz) to 10-meters (28 mhz).